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Previously on "A new kind of work related problem for me"

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  • FatLazyContractor
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    Originally posted by eek View Post
    Nah. I reckon they will just revoke his access overnight so he can't get into the building tomorrow morning. That's far easier as it avoids puddles on the office floor....
    ...and thereby reduces the risk of others contracting ebola and goat aids.

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  • RSoles
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    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
    I think a security officer will soon approach you and escort you into a room for questioning.
    Ah, the old Japanese Knotweed under the fingernails...

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
    I read the situation differently.

    I think a security officer will soon approach you and escort you into a room for questioning. Once the questioning is done, he will take you back to your desk to collect your personal belongings and then he will dump you across the street.

    Make sure you have your return ticket printed out before you are spotted.
    Nah. I reckon they will just revoke his access overnight so he can't get into the building tomorrow morning. That's far easier as it avoids puddles on the office floor....

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
    I read the situation differently.

    I think a security officer will soon approach you and escort you into a room for questioning. Once the questioning is done, he will take you back to your desk to collect your personal belongings and then he will dump you across the street.

    Make sure you have your return ticket printed out before you are spotted.
    Waiting for that! Sounds like a delightful release

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  • FatLazyContractor
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    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
    It's all moot at the moment anyways.

    My new 'colleague' has taken over my project. I am supposed to be resuming a data migration project, however .....

    Before putting the data migration project down the first time, I agreed with ClientCo to export their production data to a staging environment about 6 weeks ago.

    Until they can tell me where it is and how to access it I am posting on CUK. You lucky lucky people
    I read the situation differently.

    I think a security officer will soon approach you and escort you into a room for questioning. Once the questioning is done, he will take you back to your desk to collect your personal belongings and then he will dump you across the street.

    Make sure you have your return ticket printed out before you are spotted.

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  • suityou01
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    It's all moot at the moment anyways.

    My new 'colleague' has taken over my project. I am supposed to be resuming a data migration project, however .....

    Before putting the data migration project down the first time, I agreed with ClientCo to export their production data to a staging environment about 6 weeks ago.

    Until they can tell me where it is and how to access it I am posting on CUK. You lucky lucky people

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  • FatLazyContractor
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    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

    It's all about the base.
    Which in your case is .... ?

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
    Freudian slip there

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    In the UK there is legislation which would back you doing that and luckily the legislation uses the term "worker" so contractors are covered. As companies have been sued in the past for ignoring the regulations when they first came out, they are now careful to be seen to abide by them.

    The only time someone tried to work on my desk I picked myself up and went home as I had a contract where I could WTF if I wanted. Strangely when I came back into the office they never tried that again......
    Freudian slip there

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
    You really think I should have done this, and that no further ructions would have been caused by doing this?

    Think carefully before looking like a tit responding.

    HTH
    In the UK there is legislation which would back you doing that and luckily the legislation uses the term "worker" so contractors are covered. As companies have been sued in the past for ignoring the regulations when they first came out, they are now careful to be seen to abide by them.

    The only time someone tried to work on my desk I picked myself up and went home as I had a contract where I could WTF if I wanted. Strangely when I came back into the office they never tried that again......
    Last edited by SueEllen; 18 March 2015, 14:49.

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  • GlenW
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    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    Be a man about it. You should have said no.

    I once did a gig where they gave me a tulip desk and a chair that looked like it was from a charity shop. I wondered to the other end of the building where the execs where and took a lovely chair from an office and wheeled it back to a look of shock and awe from the other staff.

    A couple of days later someone came looking for it. I'd taken the MDs chair and he was not happy. Get me a proper chair that doesn't break health and safety and you can have it back. A new chair was ordered immediately for the MD and I kept his.

    It's all about the base.
    And when you woke up you were sitting on the toilet?

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
    You really think I should have done this, and that no further ructions would have been caused by doing this?

    Think carefully before looking like a tit responding.

    HTH
    Be a man about it. You should have said no.

    I once did a gig where they gave me a tulip desk and a chair that looked like it was from a charity shop. I wondered to the other end of the building where the execs where and took a lovely chair from an office and wheeled it back to a look of shock and awe from the other staff.

    A couple of days later someone came looking for it. I'd taken the MDs chair and he was not happy. Get me a proper chair that doesn't break health and safety and you can have it back. A new chair was ordered immediately for the MD and I kept his.

    It's all about the base.

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  • suityou01
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    Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post
    Missed your window of opportunity. Should have said no to having another pc on your desk and physically moved it when it appeared.

    You wont get much if anything done now.
    You really think I should have done this, and that no further ructions would have been caused by doing this?

    Think carefully before looking like a tit responding.

    HTH

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  • BolshieBastard
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    Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
    So in the office I have a desk that I use. The consultancy has been asked to provide another body so they have shopped one in. The client has not provided another desk so, and I sheet you not they have installed his PC on my desk. So now I have half as much desk.

    We are sat here cuddled up, like Siamese twins. Normally I have my laptop on the desk, and the keyboard and mouse for the clientCo PC.

    But now I have to have my laptop and other PC in the same space.

    Also the new consultant is very chatty. Very very chatty.

    Output from me has plummeted because of these changes.

    Advice please.
    Missed your window of opportunity. Should have said no to having another pc on your desk and physically moved it when it appeared.

    You wont get much if anything done now.

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  • MicrosoftBob
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    The grounds are quite pleasant, mostly populated by families out for a stroll, and middle aged lesbian coupless walking their dog

    Best visited when it is snowing heavily, as it makes a nice afternoon stroll from the park to neighbouring village pubs

    Never bothered visiting the venue mind

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